Join us for the opening reception of Vancouver based artist Rebecca Chaperon's first solo show in Toronto!

The unusual landscapes painted in Rebecca Chaperons Gardens are imagined physical spaces brimming with creative energy. They represent the inner places we access for creativity and imagination, places that exist within our larger internal/personal landscape. Chaperon uses a garden motif inspired by her childhood garden in England - a place of her creative origin, where she learned to create, imagine, and play.

These Gardens are living symbols for this perpetual internal place that is the wellspring of creativity and imagination. Finding the way in to this often elusive space is sometimes difficult ie. creative blocks so these paintings contain ladders, hidden pathways and waterways with planks for crossing; a number of ways to enter this space.

Chaperons work often presents a surreal version of the world, places that waver just outside of our perception. This time Chaperons exploration of place has led to a gentle introversion - to depict a place that is her creative origin.